USMC 105225: Rocket Launcher Demonstration

Item Description
Title
USMC 105225: Rocket Launcher Demonstration

Citation information
USMC 105225: Rocket Launcher Demonstration. (R-1-1; 57-0319.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
15/2033

Marine Corps Library Number
3232-16

Additional identifiers
R-1-1; 57-0319

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 105225

Decade
1950

Description
Marines in a field fire an XM70 rocket launcher (115mm) multiple times in succession. A CH34 helicopter deposits a Howitzer at an airstrip, then picks it back up. Another group of Marines in a field unload and prepare an XM70 from a jeep, then fire it.

Location(s)
Unknown

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Documentary

Film date (note)
Helicopter tail code is XM (Wikipedia says they were reassigned as MX-1 in 1958, so likely filmed 1957 or earlier.

Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Silent

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Reversal: Positive

Original physical length
90

Original aspect ratio
1.37:1 (Academy)

Original media type
Motion pictures (visual works)

Language
English

Contributing organization
University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections


Digital collection name
United States Marine Corps Films


Rights information
Public domain.

Digital media type
Moving Image

Date digital file created
06/30/2022

Digitization information
High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Lasergraphics ScanStation 6.5k

Digital runtime
2:10

Digital file type
video/H264